Gary Manning, on his blog Eutychus, has gone through the effort to produce a very good line by line refutation of the argument found in the Alef-Tav video that I pointed out at the end of my post ( Etymology Studies Live ) the other day. I am going to bump a comment into this [...]
Another set of amazing insect macro-photography. Take a look at the whole set here.
Great news! The nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses approved Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on Latin characters in a decision that could make the Web dramatically more inclusive. Entire article here. HT: Mark T.
I don’t have time to do more than point out the Velveteen Rabbi’s roundup of her live-blogging of the J-Street conference. I tried to read all her posts as she put them up while at the conference. Take some time to read through them. Why? Perspective.
Yesterday, I heard that young Éva thought we should cheer for the Phillies because her dad’s name is Phil. That reminded me of some other crazy intersections of words. We usually drive on the parkway, but park on the driveway. Although, one can drive on the driveway (from the street to the garage) and also [...]
… it is the last week of October and you are still harvesting ripe tomatoes from the vine.
Moliere‘s quote (from “The Miser”): “One should eat to live, not live to eat” is often paraphrased and used to motivate dieters or over-consumers. I’m going to take it in another direction today. We need to eat to live. Truly live. Eating involves not only nutrition and sustenance, but also community and beauty. To truly [...]
Bill Mounce answers a question about the ESV handling of Romans 2:27, 29 in Conflicting Translation Procedures on the Koinonia blog (you can also find it at Bill and Bob’s Blog). The ESV, in these verses, chose to use different English words to translate the same Greek word. He defends this choice by highlighting the [...]
Dr. Ellen Davis (Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity) has been spearheading a partnership with Renk Theological College in Southern Sudan. Listen to her describe what the Sudanese prioritized for their theological training, and why: A FEW YEARS AGO, when I asked the head of Renk Theological College in Southern Sudan to [...]
Gary Mannings and Brooke Lester have both pointed out two quotes that I reproduce below. I’ve paraphrased them numerous times myself in my classes and in defense of learning the biblical languages. Do I understand Greek and Hebrew? Otherwise, how can I undertake, as every Minister does, not only to explain books which are written [...]
Sigh. Too true. I think I am now ready to break down and start using Freedom. My good friend, Ros, found this bit of humor at We Blog Cartoons (and I somehow missed it when she posted it). Dave Walker created the cartoon.
The Velveteen Rabbi (Rachel Barenblat) is at a pretty cool conference this week (the Pop!Tech conference in Camden, Maine) and she and her husband are live-blogging some of the sessions. Check out this session (with Dennis Litky) for some ultra creative ideas for high school and college curriculum. Be prepared to think (way) outside the [...]
I’ve seen this before, but it’s still fun. I’m back home now and after I get caught up on emails (and sleep), I’ll post some thoughts from the translation conference.
Much has been said about Crumb’s new Genesis comic. I’ll leave that to others to comment on. Instead, I want to highlight another graphic novel that’s been around for a few years, but which you may not be familiar with. The Jewish Publication Society released JT Waldman’s Megillat (Esther) in January 2006. It is still [...]
I know that I promised I would post my review of the JPS Illustrated Children’s Bible quite a while ago. I think I will be able to get that online when I get back from the Bible Translation conference that I am currently attending. In the meantime, the author of that children’s bible, Ellen Frankel, [...]
